While The Wind Howls on a Winter's Night

While the Wind Howls on a Winter’s Night: a Collection of Twenty-First Century Irish Poems , by Maolsheachlann O Ceallaigh Published by Snowglobe Books, Dublin, 2015. Republication in Whole or in Part is Positively Encouraged. Please Feel Free to Make Improvements.     All of these poems are dedicated to my beloved wife Michelle. Where Life Has Been On a battered Monopoly board; On a dog-eared deck of cards; In football boots that have scored Four thousand goals; on yards Where generations have played and passed, like changing guards. In a chipped Coronation mug In a letter-filled biscuit tin; In the teddy you used to hug And the bed that you slept in When life was a drama waiting to begin. In the pounded, muddy path That the cows come home along; In a battle’s aftermath Or ruin, and tale, and song; In a run-down dancehall dreaming of its scattered throng.